The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-23
SUBDUED FEELING.
The CONDITION OF FRENCH MINDS.
HOPING FOR A SATISFACTORY GxPLANA-
TON FROM GERMANY.
The French Government Will Make a Careful InquIn
Before Complaining German Side OF
the Ston.

French CommisSary. Schnaebles. of
Pagny Sur Moselle. 10y the German police.
after he had been decoyed over the from
tier. Is regarded as serious matter in
official circles. VI. Goblet. Prime Minis
ter. and VI. Flourens. Foreign Minister
were in conference until midnight last
night, for the purpose of determining
what action To take in the premises. and
they again met this morning To further
consider the subject. Le Pair says that
the government has demanded an expla-
nation of the arrest from Germany.
The French newspapers generally regard
the occurrence as "A direct provocation
on Germany part and exhort the peo-
pie to be calm and not To play Prince
Bismarck's game.
p. Nm. Schnaebeles' arrest is
badly interpreted in the stock market.
and Rpntes have further fallen. The
quotation of the percents account at this
hour is - francs. 20 centimes. fall of
franc and 10 centimes from the closing
price last evening.
The Government will not complain to
''FiilistiiN bl dIItai bl NJ
until full inquiries have been made into
the case. La HtrdHsigednt, of which
Henry Rochefort is editor. is the only
paper that Is rabid i'll its comments on
the affair. The other Paris papers are
moderate III their references to it.
Later dispatches confirm the state
ment that VI. Schnaebeles was arrested
ON French territory. VI. Flowens will
await the result of minute inquiry on
the spot before demanding reparation
from Germany for the arrest. The per
formance of Wagner's opera. ''Lohen-
grin" which was to have taken place at
the Eden Theatre in Paris. tomorrow.
has been postponed. owing To the feeling
that has been aroused by the frontier
occurrence.
The French papers are unanimous i'm
the statement that Schnaebeles was
arrested ON French soil by German off
GERS. IL Temps publishes a dispatch
from Strasburg tating that the German
officials suspected Schnaebeles of having
relations with persons i'm Germany for
the purpose of obtaining information
concerning the military measures being
the use of the French military
authorities. The authorities Of the For
eign Office believe that the German Gov
ernment will make an explanation of the
affair that will calm the present indigna-
tion felt by Frenchmen. Political and
financial CIRCLE. La a Gloomy af
the situation.
VI. Sarrien. Minister of Justice. has
sent the Procurator-Gen to assist
the Procurator at Nancy. in making an
investigation into the arrest of Schnae-
beles and To report the facts in the
case. The Prefect of Muerthe ct Moselle.
the department i'm which Pagny sur
Moselle is situated, has arrived here for
the purpose of comforting with Premier
Goblet in regard to the arrest of VI.
Schnabeles.
BERLIN. April 22.-It is announced
that tine arrest of Schnaebeles was or
dered 10y a judge who had been con
Quoting inquiries into reasonable prac-
ticcs in Alsace- Lorraine
The arrest of Schnaebeles was the out
come of an ordinary judicial proceeding.
The Judge who ordered his arrest did 50.
it is stated, on evidence implicating him
in an attempt to subvert the allegiance
of the Alsatians To Germany. The
German authorities consider that the
fact of his being a foreigner does not
exempt Schnaebeles from punishment
They say that the moment he is caught
on German territory lac is under the juris-
dictiOn of the German courts.
Der Ndchrichten says that Schnaebeles
is strongly suspected of being a French
spy and that an inquiry will prove that
the German authorities have been duly
vigilant. The German accounts of the
affair ignore the French assertion that
Schnaebeles was enticed into German
territory and that statement is believed
to be false.
LONDON. April 22.-The arrest by Gen
mans of NJ. Schnaebeles has caused de-
preston in the London stock market.